Gavin Shatkin

Gavin Shatkin is a professor of public policy and architecture at Northeastern University, in Boston, and an urban planner whose research focuses on the political economy of urbanization in Southeast Asia. His recent research has addressed: the role of state actors in the emergence across Asia of very large, developer-built “urban real-estate megaprojects”; the implications of climate-change-induced flood risk for questions of property rights in coastal cities; and the geopolitical dynamics shaping the “infrastructure turn” in urban policy in large Southeast Asian cities. His articles have been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and numerous other journals in urban studies, planning, geography, and Asian studies. His most recent book is Cities for Profit: The Real-Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics (Cornell University Press, 2017).